WORTHY OF WORSHIP.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7917, 11 August 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

WORTHY OF WORSHIP.

“It says here : ‘One of the idols most, severed by any heathen is a figure of a woman, seated, resting her chin in her hand?.’ ” said Mrs. Smith, reading from a book. “ Which proves the- are about the wisest people on earth,” suggested her hu hand. “How’s that, Joshua?” “Well,” said Mr. Smith, with distinct emphiNsis, “simply because they make a deity of a woman who ha* sense enough to give her chin a rest.” THE DIFFERENCE.

Tho Swedish drill instructor wa* putting the new men through it The young ones seemed to bet on all right. But one or two of the older men scenic 1 to get a bit puffed. At list one man who had been youneer in his dav told the instructor that he was too old for that sort of practice. “ But, how old are yen ?’’ “Forty-one next month,” was the roolv. “Whv!” exclaimed the instructor, “the Roman* used to do thi* sort of exercise at the age of 60!” “Perhaps thev did.” Mid the perspiring private. “ But I’m not a Roman. I’m a Wesleyan.”